West's Blame It On India Afghan Plan

The US and its allies are looking for scapegoats. They will target India for their failure to contain the Pakistani Army's support to the Taliban. Self-styled historians like William Dalrymple are willing accomplices in the actBruce Riedel, arguably one of the best informed and most experienced American analysts on the AfPak region, recently wrote an interesting analysis titled, â€˜Battle for the Soul of Pakistanâ€™. Mr Riedel noted: â€œPakistan also remains a state sponsor of terror. Three of the five most-wanted on Americaâ€™s counter-terrorism list live in Pakistan. The mastermind of the Mumbai massacre and head of the Lashkar-e-Taiba, Hafeez Saeed, makes no effort to hide.
He is feted by the army and the political elite, and calls for the destruction of India frequently and Jihad against America and Israelâ€. Mr Riedel adds: â€œThe Head of the Afghan Taliban Mullah Omar shuttles between ISI safe houses in Quetta and Karachi. The Amir of Al Qaeda Ayman Zawahiri is probably hiding in a villa not much different from the one his predecessor (Osama bin Laden) was living in, with his wives and children, in Abbotabad until May 2011.â€
The Americans and their Nato allies are evidently looking for scapegoats in case their â€˜exit strategyâ€™ fails, as it did in Vietnam. India now appears to be the new scapegoat in the event of such failure, as the US and its Nato allies seem to be bent on blaming India for their failures to deal with the Pakistani Armyâ€™s support for the Taliban, which could lead to an ignominious exit for them from Afghanistan. In this effort, British writers like the self-styled historian, William Dalrymple, seem to have become willing and enthusiastic accomplices. In a recent paper published by the Washington-based Brookings Institution, Mr Dalrymple avers: â€œWhile most observers in the West view the Afghanistan conflict as a battle between the US and Nato on the one hand and the Taliban and Al Qaeda on the other, in reality the hostility between India and Pakistan lies at the heart of the conflict in Afghanistanâ€.

Yes India is responsible for failure of US forces in Afganistan. First the congi sarkar failed to support Russians in 1987 to attack Pakistan under US pressure and than they refused to support Americans to attack from east while US wanted to attack from west with ANA to dismember Pakistan in 2011. We also failed in 1984 to support Israeli strike on Pak nuke plants. All our problems are a direct result of Khangrass inaction.

The Afghan government is insisting that U.S. forces pay $1,000 for each shipping container leaving the country that lacks what it calls a valid customs form.

And authorities now claim the Americans owe $70 million in fines, even though the United States contends that Kabulâ€™s stance contradicts previous agreements, said U.S. officials, confirming a report that first appeared in the Washington Post.

The U.S. Congress was warned in May by the special inspector general for Afghanistan reconstruction that Kabul was exacting exorbitant customs fees and taxes in violation of previous agreements regulating imported goods and the status of U.S. forces.

In some cases, Afghan officials were blocking commercial trucks from delivering food and fuel to U.S. forces due to the customs dispute, the inspector general said.

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But in a second thought , not really funny is it ? It doesn't augur well for the pull-out operation if true. And >>

The disagreement over customs fines threatens to undermine difficult negotiations over a possible future U.S military presence after 2014.